Christian Fuhrhop received his diploma in computer
science from the Technical University Berlin in 1987. From 1988 to 1992 he
worked as a scientist at Fraunhofer, an activity to which he returned in 1996.

At Fraunhofer he has participated in several EU-founded
projects, such as IMMP, NexTV, ICE-CREAM, mCDN, Content4All, ethnoArc, SAMBA,
webinos, GlobalITV and UCN. He participated in TV Anytime standardization and
has been active in industry projects related to TV based applications, most
recently with MHP, Ginga and HbbTV implementations. He is currently
coordinating the MPAT project.